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COLTC will be displaying coming weekend at the Columbus OH GATS show. We will have a 30 x 25 foot layout, featuring creations big and small, new and old. Several new MOCs' will have their premier at this show, most notable a 10 foot long operating (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: New MOC - fright car from the middle of the last century
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(...) Maybe it's some FRPA thing.... I thought you'd know! But I'm assuming it's the 'e' from Ben's fright car post which is so upset with Ben for forgetting it that it's run away to join the other irritated vowels at irritatedvowels.com. Legoswami (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC - fright car from the middle of the last century
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(...) Nice design! Baldwins are severely under-represented in LEGO land. But a VO's easy, let's see you do a Sharknose! But what is "Irritated Vowel" and what did you do to irritate them? They seem to be holding one of your pictures hostage! LOL... (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC - fright car from the middle of the last century
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They're also available in yellow (x2) in 8644 Street Maniac. I'd add it to Peeron but its got too many new parts and I've never quite worked out how to read the part numbers. Tim Gould [LEGOSet 8644] (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | [Press Release] BayLTC to Lecture at MoAH (update)
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UPDATE: Sorry everyone. I probably should have added a few more details yesterday. The lecture starts at 7:30pm. It is free for museum members and $5 for non-members. Russell For immediate release: Contact: Ellen Harrington 650-321-1004 "LEGO® (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Train Bases
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(...) I used one in this: (URL) as Lar said, they would be a little short for most 8-wides. ROSCO (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Bases
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(...) You have to be careful using the train base holes with vehicles longer than one base, since the bogie centres distance becomes so large that a motor (4x6 plate size) cannot turn far enough inside the train base on curves, so the vehicle (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New MOC - fright car from the middle of the last century
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It won't be long until these "digger buckets" are not longer needed! Check out the inital concept for this VO1000 switcher (Yet another Turtle Creek MOC)... (2 URLs) The roof is made up of the new 1x3 rounded bricks (LDRaw #50950) that is used as (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC - fright car from the middle of the last century
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(...) Hi Larry, they are not really rare and appear now and then on Bricklink in amount of dozens. And these are just the black ones. The grey ones are often much more expensive at bricklink and other market places. I was lucky enough to get nearly (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New MOC - fright car from the middle of the last century
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(...) I dunno. *I* think the most difficult part of building one of these is saving up digger buckets till you have enough for a roof! Nice build. Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing! XFUT trains... (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Packing the Mountain
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(...) Mark, The lowest section of the support column is 2x4 duplo bricks. The middle column progresses to 2x8 LEGO brick configuration as it climbs up the back of the module. I do use 1x's on the cross members but all the main support columns never (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Packing the Mountain
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Using this photo (sorry I don't know what program to use to overlay numbers) (URL) tables sizes (32x32 baseplate standard) are as follow: Level One - the first table (with the nuts and bolts) is 4x8, the table directly behind is 4x6 (we call these (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Bases
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(...) Hey Mark, thats a really nice, different application of the 1x2x3-panel-and-2x3 plates technique! I can see it bieng used for (URL) high nose diesel cabs>, it's not as deja vu as the 1 x 2 x 3 train windows, and of course, the colour (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Train Bases
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(...) I can't see how... I was under the impression that it would be easier to simply use stacked plates instead. Embedding a train base would solve a lot of problems with the motor connection issues, since the holes for mating would already be (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Packing the Mountain
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(...) I see most of the modules are fascias for the raised table sections. This one (URL) shows me how you've supported the mountain. I can see the cubic structure - about every 16 studs? However, is that a stack of red 1x4 bricks at the middle of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Bases
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(...) OK, a bit bigger than 8-wide, but still applicable... I have used 6x24 bases for 4-wheel wagons, like these two brake vans: (URL) and (URL). I also have another brake van and six 32ft tube wagons (pics to follow soon). I convert the tanker (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Packing the Mountain
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Brian, Thanks for the photo documentry! I was wondering if you had time could you label the table sizes? Maybe super impose the sizes on the image ((URL) Did you custom make the tables for this project or did your tables sorta dictate the shape of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Bases
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(...) They work great for floors in large buildings. Think large plate. (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Connecting monorail cars
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Thank you everyone for the additional information. I just wanted to make sure there was not an additional special piece used to connect extra cars. (Seems a bit short sighted to me. But then again, LEGO is no longer making this set.) But the ball & (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Bases
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(...) I believe some builders use them embedded... but they are kinda short for most 8 wide cars.... I have a big stack of them myself because I don't use bases much but I can't bring myself to sell them yet. I think I will use a bunch for a factory (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Bases
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(...) I try and sell them, along with all of the other "locked in" 6 wide train elements. JOHN (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Train Bases
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Okay, I have a question for the 8-wide builders here. I'm pretty sure you must be having a sizeable number of 6 x 24 and 6 x 28 train bases leftover from offical sets because you don't use them. So what do you do with all of them? Legoswami Samarth (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | [Press Release] BayLTC to Lecture at MoAH
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For immediate release: Contact: Ellen Harrington 650-321-1004 "LEGO® Trains: Only Imagination Required" & "Thomas & Friends in LEGO" Palo Alto, CA: Feb 1 On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Kenny Paul will be presenting "LEGO® Trains: Only (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | [Press Release] BayLTC at Santa Clara Convention Center
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For Immediate Release Contact: Russell Clark rclark@telis.org 408.605.5412 (cell) SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Train Club (BayLTC) is pleased to announce that we will be displaying at the Train Collectors Association Cal-Stewart (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Packing the Mountain
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I took the mountain apart tonight and made some sequential pictures. Some of the boxes are a little snug so I use pieces of a cut up bed sheet to lower the sections in and lift them out. All total it's 17 boxes and 8 table sections. It took about (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Connecting monorail cars
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"Bryan Kinkel" <helpdesk@loseyourmind.com> wrote in message news:IBKAzK.o3C@lugnet.com... (...) There are a number of threads on this topic, I myself have built three, four, and six car versions of the Airport Shuttle. I have had great results with (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Motor cutouts (was Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building)
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(...) I've had one motor where the cutout failed. After removal it worked fine. I now remove all of these on my DCC conversions. And rely on the overload protection on the decoder. I was also experimenting with swapping the can motor from a dead (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Question about LEGO train motors
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(...) I converted 2 of my motors to DCC. And I tapped the pinion gears closer to the motor on bothe. But One of my gearbox still made ratcheting sounds. I'm wondering if it's the gears, or is it the motor combined with DCC? Mat (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Connecting monorail cars
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(...) I beleive people have used these [LDrawPart 3183:0] [LDrawPart 3730:0] [LDrawPart 3184:0] [LDrawPart 3731:0] and possibly this [LDrawPart 2508:0] to get more distance between cars for the corners. The non-truck end of the third car then rests (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Connecting monorail cars
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(...) William Howard is the expert on this, but I think he used 2x2 plates with ball-and-socket connectors to attach the back of one monorail base to the front of another. Jason Railton (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Connecting monorail cars
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I recently won an auction for a 6399 Airport Shuttle. I'm really happy to have finally obtained this set. Digging through my unsorted parts bin, I discovered that I have an extra 4x20 monorail base. But I cannot figure out how to incorporate a third (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | wife's MOCs
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Here are some MOCs built by my wife. They are a flower shop, a bakery, an outdoor BBQ restaurant, a fruit & vegetable stand, a Victorian garden, and a zoo. (URL) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
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| | Two small stores
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Here are a couple of stores that I have been bringing to various shows for close to 2 years now. I finally got around to doing photo shoots for my web site. (URL) Will's Grill>: (4 URLs) Pete's Pets>: (3 URLs) They each fit on a 16x32 baseplate, and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Motor cutouts (was Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building)
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(...) That's why my big diesels have 2 motors without question. It also makes life easier if both bogies are the same (not for class 28 CoBo!). Big steam engines have 2 motors under the tender, plus any extra ones for driving the wheels. Small steam (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | 10001 out the door?
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I went to the Colorado Mills Lego outlet store on Friday and noticed a shipment of 10001’s that just arrived. I asked the sales person when he received them in and he said a couple of days ago! I purchased a 10133, and a 10027 and as I was walking (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) Hi Mark, I'm going to be boxing the mountain module up this week for a show we're doing in two weeks. I will snap some pictures and post them so you can see how everything goes together. I use smaller tables set on top of the base tables with (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building
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I'd agree with Mark that technic figs are about 1/20 scale. My metre guage stuff works out at about 1/25 and there are a bit big and my two foot guage stuff at 1/16 and they are definately a too small. Having said that, the figs on this model look (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I probably should stick to things I can understand better. But still, its a nice calculation! (...) This is one thing I pondered about too. With the way they are displayed on his table, it would seem that they were display models. Yet the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) Oooh - that's tricky. I bet viewers spend a lot of time watching to see where the trains are going to appear next! That's always good fun. Thanks! (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I had thought that technic figures were about 1:20 scale, similar to the 18-wide trains at Legoland, but as with minifigures, you can get away with a range of scales and just assume average people are a bit taller or shorter! I see there's one (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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